Medium

Link Page Order

by slayerment UR10 1 year 13 weeks ago

Links that are placed higher on a page (hierarchy-wise) are considered to be more useful to the user and therefore most likely weighted more than links that appear lower down on a page.

301 Redirect

by lawless101 UR7 1 year 14 weeks ago

301 redirects are a way to show search engines (and users) that a page has permanently been moved from one location to another. Redirects can be handled at the page level or at the domain level.

Hosting

by slayerment UR10 1 year 16 weeks ago

Although it may sound pretty obvious, having a good host is very important for SEO. If the search engine can't access your page, well then there is nothing for it to index.

Paid Links

by Ingram UR0 1 year 16 weeks ago

Paid links can be a great way for a site to get the boost it needs to really win some searches.

Sitemap

by slayerment UR10 1 year 16 weeks ago

A sitemap is a great way to show the search engines the structure and organization of a web site.

Stop blogging on other people's domain names!

by slayerment UR10 1 year 16 weeks ago

I see it all the time and it really makes no sense to me - people set up a blog on Blogger, Wordpress or some other domain that offers a free blogging service.

Blogs

by slayerment UR10 1 year 16 weeks ago

Blogs are a great way to improve search engine rankings, but more importantly they are a superb way to involve your users and really develop some lasting connections.

Use CSS instead of frames

by slayerment UR10 1 year 17 weeks ago

Quality content can go a long way

by slayerment UR10 1 year 17 weeks ago

When I first started out doing SEO I had no clue about the value of having good content. I read it everywhere and heard everybody saying, get quality content and the links will come.

Frames

by Charles UR8 1 year 18 weeks ago

Frames on a web site usually end up confusing web sites (and users sometimes). This happens because with frames there is really multiple pages per URL that the search engines can link to.

Google Sitemap

by Charles UR8 1 year 18 weeks ago

A Google sitemap helps greatly with getting pages indexed by Google on larger sites.

External CSS and Javascript

by Charles UR8 1 year 18 weeks ago

For usability and SEO it is usually best to keep CSS and Javascript files in an external document that is called from the page.

Niche Website Marketing

by slayerment UR10 1 year 19 weeks ago

When looking to market and do SEO on a new site I would recommend looking into niches. You probably hear people saying to go after a niche all the time and it's because it really works.

Be careful buying links

by macro UR6 1 year 19 weeks ago

When buying links you should keep in mind that they will not have a very old age and will as a result usually not boost your site as much as an older link would.

RSS Feeds

by macro UR6 1 year 19 weeks ago

RSS Feeds are a great way to get content indexed both by search engines and people.